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'' franchise. It is also the last film credit for 1962

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nominee

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, as the film-score composer committed suicide in a hotel room ten months after its release.

Plot

Sylvia ( Sylvia Kristel) is involved in a tormented love affair with Marc (

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). She has tried to end their love, and escape, but always ends up back with him. After an encounter at a

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party, she decides she's had enough - she will go to

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and get extensive

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. This way he will never recognize her again, much less find her, and it will make for a great article which she promises to hand in to a

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newspaper. Sylvia goes through with it, and becomes a new woman named Emmanuelle (Mia Nygren); she is now a twenty-year-old

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. She plans to take on all of Brazil in a series of sexual escapades that will purge her past.

Cast

* Sylvia Kristel as Sylvia /

* Mia Nygren (Mia Rickfors) as

as Marc * Deborah Power as Donna * Sophie Berger as Maria * Marilyn Jess (Dominique Troyes) as Nadine * Christian Marquand as Dr. Santano *

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as Oswaldo * Brinke Stevens as Dream Girl

Release

''Emmanuelle 4'' was released in France on 15 February 1984. On its first week in Paris, the film sold 122,009 tickets. At the end of its theatrical run in Paris, it had sold a total of 455,882.

Reception

In a contemporary review, John Pym of the '' Monthly Film Bulletin'' stated that "a reach-me-down mish-mash, padded with flashbacks and what appear to be hardcore sequences, and scissored by many hands." The review also commented on the 3D in the film, as "barely noticeable".

References

External links

* * 1984 films 1980s pornographic films Films shot in France Films shot in Brazil Films set in Brazil Emmanuelle 1980s erotic drama films French erotic drama films Golan-Globus films 1984 drama films 1980s English-language films 1980s French films {{erotic-film-stub